French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of tightening the country's anti-terror laws, including placing curbs on the movement of convicted radicals and using algorithms to detect extremists online.
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Members of the National Assembly voted 87 to 10, Wednesday, to adopt legislation that would make permanent several emergency measures that were introduced after the Paris attacks of November 2015. The Senate will need to ratify the legislation for it to become law.
The legislation had been in the pipeline for months but was expedited by President Emmanuel Macron's government after a Tunisian terrorist stabbed an employee at a police station near Paris to death last month.
The attack was the latest in a terrorist wave that has claimed over 250 lives since 2015 and intensified once again last autumn when a teacher was beheaded for showing his pupils cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
The bill before parliament gives the police the powers to restrict the movement of people convicted of terrorism following their release from prison.
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With scores of people convicted of terror offenses or terror links are due for release in coming years, Yael Braun-Pivet, a lawmaker from Macron's Republic on the Move party warned in a report last year that "very dangerous people...will be getting out of prison and we don't have the tools necessary to ensure they are monitored.
The main opposition Republicans argued the legislation was not tough enough, with one representative saying France had been left vulnerable to the "human bombs who will be getting out of prison."
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
